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Andrew Brown, Marxist critic who works for the Guardian, major left wing newspaper.

New atheism is a political movement and not an Intellectual one:

Brown's blog on the Guardian site
In
part this is difficult because the new atheism is largely a political
and social rather than an intellectual movement. In some ways it can be
understood as the canary in the coalmine of American power and
exceptionalism.
this guy is an expert in ideology. This guy
knows ideology when he sees it. He distills an idea for New Atheism
(which proves one of my major assertions). His method for piecing
together the ideology is to find the communality in the works of the
major leaders of their movement, the major New Atheist writers.

The
ideas I claim are distinctive of the new atheists have been collected
from Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Jerry Coyne,
the American physicist Robert L. Park, and a couple of blogging
biologists, P Z Myers and Larry Moran. They have two…

I
contend that the theistic version of god doesn't exist. Why do I say
this? Because the assertion that there is a personal god seems to be
baseless. In fact, it is christian apologists that eroded my faith
away. They continue to make qualifications about why it seems that god
does nothing, until eventually the view that god exists is no different
from the view that he doesn't exist.

People assert
that god makes a difference in their lives. My question to you is,
what would the world look like if that god didn't exist? What
differences would we notice?

(NOTE: If anyone responds
by saying "without god the world couldn't exist at all" I'll just
ignore it, that's not the point of the discussion)
In the discussion that ensued
this turned into a reverse design argument. Its' reversal because he's
saying basically that Chrsitians can show any…

So many atheist attacks on the Christian faith proceed from the
standpoint of litterlizing their negative image of God, which is based
upon the OT version of God, that I used to always been telling them "you
are making God into the big man in the sky." Now Atheists on CARM have started telling me that I'm making God into the Big man in the sky when
I assume that God is conscious or that he loves us. The fact is that
many of them assume that even slightest hint of consciousnesses in God
and it's anthropomorphizing. They just have hold of the wrong end of the
stick. God is not modeled after big man in sky just by being
assumed conscious, but when we assume attitudes and behaviors caught up
in the same assumptions that men make. My thesis here today is that it's
only the big man in sky when it echos the personality hangups of big
man. The nature of consciousness is such that this in and of itself need
not be taken as anthropomorphic. The Christian concep…

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